RALEIGH, N.C. — The attorney general of North Carolina has announced that he will not defend a recently signed law that overturned a controversial “bathroom bill” in Charlotte and banned other cities from passing similar ordinances. Roy Cooper called the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act a “national embarrassment” on Tuesday during a press conference in which […]
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz says that abortion-minded mothers shouldn’t be charged for killing their unborn children in response to comments from Donald Trump that they should face “some form of punishment”—a remark Trump later recanted. Trump had been interviewed by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews during a town hall event on Wednesday. “Do you believe in punishment for […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists have vandalized his shop, threatened to kill him, attacked his wife and daughter, forced him to bow to Hindu idols and broken his hand, but a pastor in northern India is holding fast to Christ. “The best thing that has happened to me is Jesus,” the 55-year-old pastor, […]
(Reuters) — Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday vetoed a Republican-backed bill aimed at blocking state funding for Planned Parenthood, which performs abortions and provides other health services. McAuliffe, a Democrat, said the bill passed by the Republican-dominated legislature would harm thousands of state residents who relied on Planned Parenthood for health care. “The fact […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The owners of a bed and breakfast in Illinois have been ordered to pay $80,000 after they declined to host a civil union ceremony for two homosexual men on the premises, and have been mandated to facilitate a celebration for the men at their facility within one year. TimberCreek Bed and Breakfast […]
CONCORD, Calif. — A California man who admitted to setting a church building on fire six years ago as he was “mad at God” because of the hardships in his life has been sentenced to over three years in prison. Following an indictment in March 2015 and a subsequent plea deal, Hugo Scherzberg, 48, plead guilty […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The Republican governor of Utah has signed into a law a bill that requires abortionists to administer anesthesia to unborn babies so that they cannot feel pain as they are being murdered. “The governor is adamantly pro-life,” a spokesman for Gov. Gary Herbert asserted in a statement on Tuesday. “He […]
DELTA, Co. — A public school district in Colorado has agreed to allow professing atheist and satanic groups to place their materials in area middle and high schools after the organizations took issue with a recent Bible distribution by Gideon International. In December, Gideons made Bibles available for students at public schools in Delta County. That […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and two transgender advocacy groups have filed a federal lawsuit against officials in North Carolina following the signing of a law that overturned Charlotte’s controversial “bathroom bill” and banned other cities from passing similar ordinances. “We are asking the court to overturn House Bill 2 because […]
KENT, U.K. — A magistrate in the United Kingdom who was removed from office over comments he made last year that it is best for adoptive children to be placed with a mother and father has now also been suspended from the board of the National Health Service over the issue. As previously reported, Richard Page, who […]